Happy Monday!!
We’ll start off with the important stuff, this begins the student led conference week. Therefore the students will be departing school everyday at 2:00 p.m.
A reminder these are student led conferences. It is always a great idea to ask your son/daughter before leaving for the conference if they need to bring anything with them. Sometimes kids bring their goal work and their grades home with them to look at them and prepare for their meeting and then they leave the paperwork at home.
A significant portion of this week (45 to 60 minutes per day) and next week will be spent allowing students to review their work and create realistic and non generic goals.
“If you’re going to make an omelette you will have to break a few eggs.” I’m not sure who said that however it sure seems true in our case here in the C-Wing. I eagerly look forward to Dublin Elementary expanding and having a brand new 3rd/4th grade wing. Yet our building expansion is in full bloom which brings with it constant noises and equipment distractions. I have no witty commentary and I fully understand that it is a necessary nuisance that must exist in order for us to expand our school. I guess I’m just using this forum to express myself. Your kids have been troopers, they understand about the no windows or doors opened on many days and they put up with their noise challenged recesses.
Math:
We took an end of the trimester 1 test last Thursday. Many students really struggled with the geometry section of the test. We reviewed concepts regarding triangles, parallelograms and solving to find a missing angle. So we reviewed that and students will be working on practicing and taking notes again on these concepts.
Today’s lesson is also a further lesson on parallelograms.
Here are two videos that we watched on them:
If your student jumps right to 8:04 in the video, they should be able to successfully answer any of tonight’s math homework.
We had the last of our presentations. As a general consensus many of the 24 students that presented struggled to pull out specific quotes and details from the book that they read. Often inferences were made without citing specific parts of the story that led to that observation, critique or made “it cool.” I do not know how many times I heard it was a “great book” without a “because” or any mention to specific parts of the story that would lead someone to believe the book was great. The nice thing students can refurbish their original project and resubmit for a higher grade.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Homework for the week:
Math:
354-355 1-17 all 15-5 due Tuesday
376-377 1-11 all 16-5 due Wednesday
264-265 1-18 all 11-5 due Thursday
212-213 1-28 all 9-5 due Friday
Vocab:
page 27 due Tuesday
page 28 due Wednesday
page 29 due Thursday
Non fiction reading comprehension is due on Thursday. “Plants are producers”
Free-Write due this Friday:
I have these dice with tons of different things that you can write about. I rolled five of the dice and this is what the “writing gods” said we were to write about this week:
1. drama
1. drama
- A happy face
- cell phone
- a castle
- an insect
There will be some extra homework related to goals and writing related to setting goals.
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